Events for September 23, 2025 – Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Book launch: Old North Melbourne

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne

Join us to celebrate the publication of Old North Melbourne, the first comprehensive book on the nineteenth-century history of Hotham/North Melbourne, by Dr Fiona Gatt. 'Like Janet McCalman's Struggletown this book is destined
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Free

The Convent

Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran

Have you visited the Abbotsford Convent before? It is a beautiful place, its history, architecture, artistry, and food make it a must visit.  The Abbotsford Convent was a haunted place, left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters
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